Question

I am trying to build a jquery image slider for my home page ,,,, i know there are unlimited tutorials for the same , but my requirement is that i want the slider to be independent ie i would like to have the images,title,description to be loaded from XML file ,,, so that in future i would just have to change XML file…Can anyone suggest me how to start with this as i am fairly new to XML….
Thank you

Answer 1

Use ajax to get XML and parse it.

http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.get/
http://think2loud.com/224-reading-xml-with-jquery/
http://www.switchonthecode.com/tutorials/xml-parsing-with-jquery

Find a slider you like or write your own.

http://naldzgraphics.net/tutorials/25-must-learn-slider-tutorials-with-jquery/

Use jQuery to buil the html portion of your slider from the parsed XML

http://api.jquery.com/append/